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.art: Cover for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fiercelydreamed's "Unidentified" and noir AU
A couple experimental pieces, by which I mean experimental for me. One is a cover for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fiercelydreamed's really, really awesome Unidentified, and the other is a draft of a cover for the noir!AU villainny and amberlynne have been interested in.
1: At some point when I was supposed to be doing something else, I wanted to see how many layers I could handle before losing my mind (answer: 215), and producing something like Rodney's "memory wall" in "Unidentified" seemed like a good way to do it. Unlike the collages I do for textures, I wanted to try something that would have an identifiable (pun intended?) subject, and with everything--at least on the board, not so for the background elements--relating to each other. Pretty much every image on the board pertains in some way to Rodney and his interests: his friends, places he might have been or should go some day, science fiction stuff, cool physics things, a photo of Johnny Cash that John probably put there at one point for purposes of antagonism.
2: I suppose this is really only noir-inspired; I tried to adapt some of my fonts (I think this is Futural) to 40s/50s-style typefaces, and the coloring is mostly monochrome to mimick the greyscale-sort of atmosphere from the classic films. If this was really properly 1940s noir, I guess it should be hand-drawn and painted, but in the absence of mad drawing skillz, I borrowed a heavily-desaturated and erased John from a Nantucket piece for a placeholder. Like the story that might eventually go with it, it's just a battered, lousy pulp paperback, complete with coffee stain and folds in the corners.
Now that I feel a bit less like I'm falling over myself, I might actually be able to do decent stuff for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
paintedspires, which is a happy thing.
fiercelydreamed's really, really awesome Unidentified, and the other is a draft of a cover for the noir!AU villainny and amberlynne have been interested in. 1: At some point when I was supposed to be doing something else, I wanted to see how many layers I could handle before losing my mind (answer: 215), and producing something like Rodney's "memory wall" in "Unidentified" seemed like a good way to do it. Unlike the collages I do for textures, I wanted to try something that would have an identifiable (pun intended?) subject, and with everything--at least on the board, not so for the background elements--relating to each other. Pretty much every image on the board pertains in some way to Rodney and his interests: his friends, places he might have been or should go some day, science fiction stuff, cool physics things, a photo of Johnny Cash that John probably put there at one point for purposes of antagonism.
2: I suppose this is really only noir-inspired; I tried to adapt some of my fonts (I think this is Futural) to 40s/50s-style typefaces, and the coloring is mostly monochrome to mimick the greyscale-sort of atmosphere from the classic films. If this was really properly 1940s noir, I guess it should be hand-drawn and painted, but in the absence of mad drawing skillz, I borrowed a heavily-desaturated and erased John from a Nantucket piece for a placeholder. Like the story that might eventually go with it, it's just a battered, lousy pulp paperback, complete with coffee stain and folds in the corners.
Now that I feel a bit less like I'm falling over myself, I might actually be able to do decent stuff for
paintedspires, which is a happy thing.
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I spent ages looking at all the different photos on the memory wall
instead of workingI love noir; I always hoped for an utterly hilarious Maltese Falcon-type story with John and Rodney...
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I always hoped for an utterly hilarious Maltese Falcon-type story with John and Rodney...
The story I'm picking at right now riffs a bit on Maltese Falcon. John is the dame, which I never fail to find amusing.